Pornography Rule

[CapnAwesome]

Is there advertising on Atheist forums? Can't we just all donate a little more money? I mean it's not really a big deal for me personally, because I doubt I ever violate the rule anyway. It's not what I'm here for. I just like to avoid that slippery slope. Just like it's the nature of government to add laws and never repeal them, so too is it the nature of internet forums to add more rules and never get rid of any of the old ones.

There's advertising on all pages for logged out users. Unfortunately we ran the site on donations for several years, and the problem is that people don't just donate a little more money. We've had several large donations in the past that helped the site for a long time, but unfortunately donations these days are rare.

Adding adverts that only appeared for logged out users seemed like a good compromise, because ultimately nobody who joins the site saw them, but they still generated sufficient revenue to pay for the site bills.

Maybe you should do a wikipedia style donation drive once a year? Or make a patreon page. I'd be into something like a patreon page. You could make a thermometer where if so much money is raised, we can tell dirty jokes again.